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" Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. "

Paul Wolfowitz

Imagination

World

History

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Irrelevant

" Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. "

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" I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me. "

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Come

Asking

" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "

" Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. "

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Problems

Believe

" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "

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Thinking

Science

" We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. "

" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "

" It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. "

" I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. "

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